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A Tangled Web

Margaret then sells a first edition of The Pilgrim's Progress that she inherited from Aunt Becky and uses the money to buy a house for herself and to adopt Brian, an illegitimate and lonely orphan who is largely neglected by the family.

Agostino Agostini

He was a mansionary chaplain at the San Giorgio Cathedral in Ferrera, and his illegitimate son (sometimes listed as his nephew) was composer Lodovico Agostini, noted for publications of enigmatic canons.

Albert Gaspard Grimod

In 1792 Albert married Eleanore, Baroness de Franquemont, (1771-1833) an illegitimate daughter of the reigning Duke of Württemberg by the Italian adventuress Anne Franchi.

Alejandro Colina

Alejandro Colina's parents were Alejandro Torcuato Colina, the illegitimate son of Estado Falcón; and Fermina Viera, a Spanish lady originally from Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Alexandru Coconul

It is possible that Radu Gioan Bey was his illegitimate son, however no documents reveal a legitimate heir.

Allegra Byron

Clara Allegra Byron (12 January 1817 – 20 April 1822), initially named Alba, meaning "dawn," or "white," by her mother, was the illegitimate daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron and Claire Clairmont, the stepsister of Mary Shelley.

Alonso Verdugo, 3rd Count of Torrepalma

His mother was one of the daughters of Sancho de Castilla y Lasso de Castilla, 9th Señor de Gor, province of Granada, señor de Alboloduy, province of Almeria, and Herrera de Valdecañas, province of Palencia, an illegitimate descent of King Pedro I of Castile, (assassinated by his bastard brother Enrique, afterwards King Enrique II of Castile in Montiel in March 1369).

Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz

But António, Prior of Crato, an illegitimate representative of the former Portuguese royal family, who conducted some popular resistance to the crowning of what was seen as a foreign king, continued to hold the islands of the Azores.

Amaryllis Fleming

She was the illegitimate daughter of the painter Augustus John by his mistress Eve Fleming, mother of the writers Peter Fleming and Ian Fleming by her late husband, although most of her life she was raised as the adopted daughter of Eve Fleming as a pretence to hide her illegitimacy and only discovered her true parentage when she was in her twenties.

Anthony Jenkinson

There exists speculation that Jenkinson had an illegitimate daughter, Anne Beck or Whateley, who was at one point engaged to be married to William Shakespeare.

Baron Sherard

Reverend Bennet Sherard Calcraft Kennedy, illegitimate son of the sixth Earl, was the father of the author and journalist Robert Sherard.

Bitter Fruit

grandfather's relatives, who are Muslims (although his father Silas, an illegitimate child, is not).

Blaze Foley

Foley jokingly claimed to be the illegitimate son of Red Foley and Blaze Starr.

Bowes Museum

Bowes was the illegitimate son of John Bowes the 10th Earl of Strathmore, and Kinghorne.

Charlotte Lee

Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield (1664-1718), illegitimate daughter of King Charles II of England and Scotland, and Barbara Villiers

Count of Tyrone

In 1542, the O'Neill was Conn Bacach O'Neill, younger son of Conn Mor O'Neill in Tyrone; he resigned the position of the O'Neill, and accepted the Earldom of Tyrone; by the patent, his successor was to be his eldest, but illegitimate, son Ferdoragh, who took the name of Matthew, and Matthew's heirs male.

Counts of Comminges

1462–1472 : Jean de Lescun (illegitimate son of Arnaud-Guillaume of Lescun, bishop of Aire, and of Anne of Armagnac, born ? – died 1472, known as the Bastard of Armagnac, Marshal of France)

Cruggleton Castle

On that date Earl of Moray wrote Sir Patrick Vaus to intervene between the Flemings and his brother Lord Robert Stewart, Commendator of Whithorn and later Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney also an illegitimate son of James V of Scotland.

D'Estaing family

Lucie Madeleine d'Estaing (Paris 1743 - Clermont-Ferrand 1826), viscountes of Ravel in Auvergne, illegitimate half-sister of the admiral, mistress of Louis XV; married, she had numerous descendants including two daughters of Louis XV.

Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim

1970 – January 29, 2007), also known as al-Ali bin Ali bin Abi Talib (Arabic: العلي بن علي بن أبي طالب), claimed to be from Hilla, Iraq, was the leader of an armed extremist Shiite Islam cult named Jund al-Samaa ("Soldiers of Heaven" in Arabic, a well-armed Shia cult regarding the religious leadership in Najaf as illegitimate) based in Iraq.

Dominic Thompson

He mysteriously got on well with rival Chris' (Michael Galvin) mother - Margot Warner (Dinah Priestley) and when she died, Dom revealed himself as Chris' illegitimate half brother.

Earl of Wiltshire

The earldom was first created for Harvey of Léon, who married Sybilla, an illegitimate daughter of King Stephen.

Elizabeth Ann Blaesing

Elizabeth Ann Britton Harding Blaesing (October 22, 1919 – November 17, 2005) was the alleged illegitimate daughter of Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States, and Nan Britton, a native of Marion, Ohio.

Florence MacCarthy

In the autumn, Donal MacCarthy (the late Earl's illegitimate son) was reported to have acknowledged the authority of the rebel O'Neill and assumed the title of MacCarthy Mór; but the O'Sullivan Mór withheld the White Wand or rod of inauguration (which symbolically approved the accession of a chieftain) in favour of Florence MacCarthy.

Frederic von Franquemont

Franquemont was the son of an illegitimate union of Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1728-1793) and the dancer Regina Monti.

George Nayler

Originally a miniature painter, Nayler began his heraldic career in 1792 (the year he married Charlotte Williams, the illegitimate daughter of Sir John Guise, 1st Baronet).

Israel and legitimacy

M.J. Rosenberg, writing in the Los Angeles Times, argued that the term "delegitimization" is a "distraction", whose purpose is to divert attention away from world opposition to the "illegitimate" occupation of the West Bank and blockade of the Gaza Strip, from the "illegal" settlements, and from "the ever-louder calls for Israel to grant Palestinians equal rights".

Jack Worthington

He is best known for his claims that his mother confided to him, as a result of the discovery of a genetic illness of his presumed father later in life, that he is the illegitimate son of the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John F. Kennedy.

Jean de Wavrin

He was illegitimate, the son of Robert de Waurin, Lord of Wavrin, which is now (just) in France on the Belgian border, and Michielle de Croix.

John Hunter Gowan II

He also had illegitimate children by Margaret Hogan including another son, Ogle Robert Gowan, who was a prominent Orangeman newspaper publisher in Brockville, Kingston and Toronto, Canada and was founder and first Grand Master of the Orange AssociationCanada and his home in Canada is now called Nebo Lodge in tribute to his father's Wexford home Mount Nebo.

Julius Pomponius Laetus

Laetus was born at Teggiano, near Salerno, the illegitimate scion of the princely house of Sanseverino, the German historian Ludwig von Pastor reported.

Karim Adel Abdel Fatah

Since the transfer window closes on 31 January in Egypt, some Egyptian league's clubs, such as Olympic Alexandria, showed their dissatisfaction towards that transfer and considered it illegitimate.

Marava War of Succession

Prior to his death, Kilavan had first nominated his illegitimate son, Bhavani Shankar and later, due to protests from the people, chose his younger son, Vijayaraghunatha Sethupathi to succeed him.

Mary Radcliffe

Lady Mary Tudor (1673–1726), illegitimate daughter of Charles II and wife of Edward Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Derwentwater

Matilda FitzRoy

Matilda FitzRoy, Duchess of Brittany, illegitimate daughter of Henry I of England by unnamed mistress

Monastery of São Dinis de Odivelas

They had an illegitimate son, José, one of the so-called Children of Palhavã.

Morton Selten

Given the name Morton Richard Stubbs at birth, and claimed as the son of Morton Stubbs, it was generally acknowledged that Selten was an illegitimate son of the then Prince of Wales (and future King Edward VII).

Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara

In 1425 Niccolò had both his wife Parisina and his illegitimate son Ugo executed on charges of adultery.

Philip Lindsay

They Have Their Dreams, about Perkin Warbeck, claims that Warbeck was really the illegitimate son of Margaret of York and a clergyman.

Princess Sophia of Gloucester

Her mother was the Duchess of Gloucester, the illegitimate daughter of Edward Walpole.

Richard Herbert

Sir Richard Herbert (died 1510), illegitimate son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke

Saratoga Trunk

In 1875, Clio Dulaine, the illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic New Orleans Creole man and a very light-skinned Creole woman of color who was his placée, returns from Paris to her birthplace in Rampart Street to avenge her mother's mistreatment at the hands of her father's family, the Dulaines.

Southern Italy

At his death in 1458, the kingdom was again separated and Naples was inherited by Ferrante, Alfonso's illegitimate son.

The Duchess of Duke Street

Eventually, Louisa secretly gives birth to their illegitimate daughter Lottie (Lalla Ward).

The History of Henry Esmond

The novel opens on Henry as a boy – the supposedly illegitimate (and eventually orphaned) son of Thomas, the third Viscount Castlewood, and cousin of the Jacobite fourth viscount, Francis, and his wife, the Lady Castlewood.

Thomas Courtenay, 6th Earl of Devon

Courtenay married, at Coventry, Warwickshire, shortly after 9 September 1456, Mary of Anjou, illegitimate daughter of Charles, Count of Maine.

Unified Communist Party of Spain

The PCEU congress held in Bilbao in March 1981 was considered illegitimate by one sector of the party, leading to a split of the party into two.

Vestris

Auguste Vestris (1760–1842), French dancer, illegitimate son of Gaétan Vestris

William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot

Mary Anne Talbot claimed to be one of sixteen illegitimate children of Lord Talbot.


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